A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video ("Connection and Emotions: Taking Control") about connection in sacred business and practical emotional self-regulation. Speakers emphasize that emotions are controllable by cultivating self-awareness of bodily sensations, creating a pause (breath) to insert choice between automatic chemistry and response, and reclaiming personal responsibility for one's state (including a Sadhguru quote on not granting others power over your emotions).
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Connection is a fundamental frequency of sacred business. So it is a frequency that relates to you, your relationship with yourself, your relationship with others, with life and with the divine. So today I want to talk about your connection with your body and your ability to control your emotions. And yes, we can do that. So often this doesn't feel true because.
We can easily be controlled by our emotions. But in reality we do have the power to choose how we want to feel. So a lot of times you say, oh, he made me feel, or that person made me feel this way. And nobody had the power to actually control the chemistry inside your body except you. However, because it's such like a rapid response, it feels that it's automatic. Like it feels that you don't have the control. But the first step to start controlling.
Your emotions is like being aware that you can do that. Oh, that's like how would it be? Just open your mind to the possibility. And then secondly start to notice when.
Certain energies or certain emotions arise in your body. So when you get. It's very subtle, but what we are trying to do is actually managing the sensations and this is really powerful. So when you notice something rising, you can actually like perceive. And maybe at the first and second time you won't be able to do anything different. Then you're gonna just like maybe explode or maybe do the same reaction that you're used to, but over. Just because we're being aware, you are creating a gap between the change of.
Chemistry and your ability to respond. So once that happens, you can actually take a deep breath in. And by practicing the breathing in between.
You'Re going to be able to choose how you want to respond. So if you practice that enough, you.
Will probably see that some people that.
Used to trigger before, they're like, they don't have the effect over you that they had before. Not only people, but like certain situations. And then you are actually like gathering your energy back and stepping into your real power. There's a saying of sadhguru that I really love it and he says, I.
Have not given the privilege to anyone to make me happy, unhappy, angry or miserable. This is one thing you should do. Your way of being should be determined by you and only you.
